Earlier quoted context omitted.
A police officer came to my school and told the assembled students that sharpened rulers counted as knives. (I never bothered checking if he was right or making it up).
A strict reading of the law in many US cities classifies nerf and airsoft guns as deadly weapons regardless of the velocities involved. I don't think that gets applied often (ever?), but a few people have gotten deadly weapon charges for using BB guns, so the line isn't too far away. With that as the backdrop I wouldn't be surprised at sharpened rulers being classified as knives (especially as pertaining to laws rega…
Perhaps it is so that this definition would cover the police in the event they shot someone brandishing an airsoft?